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[shrugs_a_lot]

[It's been almost two weeks and Cloud is still one fluffy cloud... However after so many hours of boredom, he's learned some tricks.

You observant people might have noticed something going on in the skies for the entire week. There is some random cloud shapes happening without there being a breeze to shape them; it might look like dragons, then like lions and sometimes like those weird four legged creatures from the stables. But the majority are some huge birds, chocobos in fact for those who know them by name...

And the oddest of all... A sword?

Yep, he's been practising. What else is there to do when you're a cloud? Raining and thunder can be tiring you know?

Today though, he is bored and it shows...

When will this stupid loss end?

He might as well go down to ground level and mix with humans (or whatever you are) for a change. He's able to form words now! Even if it's only short ones... All that hard work paid out!]


{{Last post of Cloud as a cloud, wanted to play it a little more before changing him back. Feel free to react or actually find him outside in the castle's grounds. I think it's safe to say I'm back from hiatus, though I might be a little slow still, sorry forever about that.}}

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[ninjainviolet]

[Sheena had been adding to her growing collection of drawings with a few additions of the strange flowers growing in the garden when she spotted the cloud above her in the shape of a dragon. A few deft strokes later, and it had been captured on the paper in front of her.

Then it changed into a weird-looking bird... Smiling slightly, she copied that as quickly as she could, but this time when she looked up, she saw the cloud was much closer and she could make out that tell-tale spike on one side..]

I thought it was you! Sorry I couldn't help you change back, but it looks like you've been having fun.

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Well, well, look who we have here! He approaches and hovers next to her, peeking into the paper in front of her.

She was good with that! It takes him a second or two but he changes into a thumb up.]

[ninjainviolet]

[Sheena laughs delightedly.]

Glad you like it.

[Sets it aside and does another quick one: cloud then thumbs up.]

[shrugs_a_lot]

[He comes back to his... usual shape, that spiky yet fluffy cloud. Are you having fun with that?

Anyway, he's been away for a while, let's see what's up. And he changes:]

Sup?

[ninjainviolet]

[She likes that shape and draws it again--this time with a few blades of grass below. She's going to give him one of these as soon as she finds out who he is.]

Whoa! You have been having fun! Ummm...Let's see. I've actually moved from the castle in with some friends... Who don't know I enjoy drawing by the way.

It's a secret, okay?

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Girl, you're good at that... He might ask her to teach him when he's really bored. What kind of friend hides something they enjoy? Huh. Of course it's not like him to ask that type of stuff.]

sure

[ninjainviolet]

Thanks.

[She has a reason for hiding it; she doesn't want them laughing at her. She looks over some of her drawings, picking out the one with the dragon.]

This was you, right?

[heliotroping]

[This one went to the roof to charge. And when he looks up, he nearly jumps out of his skin]

...I hope that's not the castle talking...

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Nope, it's not! Let's just say Cloud is passing by near the roof--why so scared, kid? And he changes himself into:]

?

[heliotroping]

I'd... just rather not deal with chaos today... [he feels a little weird talking directly to the sky, even weirder that it's responding]

[shrugs_a_lot]

you

and

me

both

[heliotroping]

Am I... talking to the castle or someone else...?

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Does he think it's the castle talking? That's awesome.
Mess with him a little.
No way man, I'm just a rainy cloud passing by.

... He changes into a little castle! He needs to have fun!]

[bustered]

[Zack is finally back from his camping out for a week and then some -- a trip in which he'd been followed, now and then, by the little storm cloud that had zapped him good on that first Sunday. He'd done his best to try to behave around it -- not easy when he didn't know what had set it off in the first place -- but he'd also kept his Materia handy, just in case he had to freeze it again.

Thankfully, it hadn't gotten to that point.

He'd finally returned to his space in the Castle though, cleaned up and gotten a nice night of rest in a bed. And, as he'd done every day since the blond disappeared, he'd written a short note in the journal, hoping for a response. (And, as had been the case every day he'd written a note, there was no reply.)

Currently, he's wandered down to the courtyard, hoping to spend some time working out with his sword in a place that offers enough room to swing it.]

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Hmm... Look who decided to go come back... Still carrying and using his sword, huh?

The cloud approaches from behind and let's out a mighty thunder only to make this one jump.]

[bustered]

[The sudden rumble of thunder makes Zack start: the sky is clear and the sun bright; there shouldn't be any thunder. But as he looks around and finally behind him, he sees that strange cloud from the other day.

Oh, joy.]

Back again?

[shrugs_a_lot]

[If Cloud would smirk if he could. However he'll just content himself with bothering him. It takes him a second to change into a little word.]

Thief

[bustered]

No.

[He stretches, rolling shoulders and upper arms, drawing the blade from its place on his back and moving slowly into a warm-up stance. He hasn't forgotten the cloud, though.]

I'm not.

[shrugs_a_lot]

[As much as he's practiced, it's difficult to change into more than one word... Which sucks! He'll change one by one if he needs to... Stupid magic castle and its stupid losses...]

it's

mine

Placeholder because weekend madness ahh

[kidwiththeleash]

[Integra has hefted a heavy book from the library out onto the grounds- because it just gets so dark and dusty in there, a change of scenery better for her studying- to learn about the castle itself, at least the contents of it, might help a bit.]

<3 no rush

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Oh hey! He knows this little blond, he approaches silently (not like he can do it any other way) and peeks over her shoulder. What are you reading?]

[kidwiththeleash]

[It looks like a very big and long boring book- almost like legal jargon. It's bound to be boring! But she has become use to reading them, so off to do so she was.

But hm, is that a little shadow from over her shoulder, or...?]

[shrugs_a_lot]

[He just floats there--you're weird kid. Somehow he thought he'd see some fairy tale on her lap...]

[kidwiththeleash]

[Somebody is a little too old for fairy tales, in her opinion.

But anyway, after a moment she peeks over her shoulder, then turns around when she sees the white fluffy mass behind her, a little startled but not frightened.]

Huh? A cloud?

[shrugs_a_lot]

[Ah! Don't get scared! He changes as quickly as he can into a word:]

hi